Furthermore, she believes there are many similarities between Christianity's Jesus and Islam's Mohammed: They were both open-minded, helped the weak, overcame personal struggles and far more besides.
Shia revere Ali, the prophet Muhammad's son-in-law and Islam's fourth caliph.
It's the site of the Imam Hussein shrine, one of Shiite Islam's holiest locations.
For centuries, the Abou El Fadl family included jurists who studied in the schools affiliated with Cairo's Al Azhar mosque, the venerable epicenter of Sunni Islamic thinking--Islam's Oxbridge.
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Twenty hours later, the couple arrived from New York in Medina, Islam's second-holiest city after Mecca.
The pity is that they are mostly being said in the West, not in Islam's heartland.
For anyone who looks to Islam's foundational texts as the ultimate arbiter of truth, these are resonant allusions.
All of these have past precedents for fourteen hundred years and are well documented in Islam's own historical texts.
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The second strand is the unresolved question of Islam's role in the nation.
He said the ICC had received different information from the various rebel factions about Saif al-Islam's purported arrest and whereabouts.
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But he overstates Islam's spread (there are perhaps 20m Muslims in Europe, just 4% of its current population of 500m).
Lindh argued that before 2007 Muslim prisoners were allowed to pray together for at least three of Islam's five daily prayers.
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As beneficiaries of a culture of religious tolerance, they are especially well placed to explain its merits to co-religionists in Islam's heartland.
The Shah-i-Zinda, a necropolis in Samarkand, was one of Islam's holiest places.
After all, Islam's rules have been around since the seventh century, and some Muslim countries have been rich since the discovery of oil.
But the faith is invoked on both sides of this quarrel, by Islam's democrats and modernisers as well as by its autocrats and traditionalists.
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Any depiction of Islam's prophet is considered blasphemy by many Muslims.
This notwithstanding serious questions raised about Mr. Islam's public biography, conduct in relation to Muslim outreach, the Coughlin affair and his top secret security clearance.
On Monday, the chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Court (ICC) said he was negotiating with the rebels for Saif al-Islam's transfer to The Hague.
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The majority of Muslim Americans are either upwardly mobile migrants from southern Asia or Iran, or black American converts who lack any personal links to Islam's heartland.
Not without reason: although some Shia dynasties, such as the Fatimids in Egypt, did hold sway for long periods, Islam's early caliphs often oppressed their Shia subjects.
The fact that Islam's main text, the Koran, is regarded as the actual word of God necessarily assigns a paramount place to the interpreters of this text.
In Damascus, the traditions of Ramadan are as old as the Koran, Islam's holy book: a month of introspection and prayer, no food or water from sunup to sundown.
Likewise they flock to the mausoleum of Jalal-ud-din Rumi, one of Islam's most venerated mystics, ignoring on their way the secular mausoleums erected en masse by their Seljuk ancestors.
The statement from Saif al-Islam's defence counsel said that both they and the defendant had been informed earlier that there was not enough evidence to pursue him for "serious crimes".
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In a kind of "Dear Abby" column, Ozdemir offered advice to young women, arguing Islam's compatibility with Western norms and advocating such values even when more religious Muslims rejected them.
And as only Muslims are permitted to enter Islam's holiest city, were he to win the commission, Lord Foster would have the tricky task of seeing through his design from a distance.
Soon after he seized power, General Musharraf went to Saudi Arabia, Islam's holiest land, to pay obeisance to King Fahd, only to be stunned by an intercession by Prince Abdullah to ask for clemency for Mr Sharif.
But arguments in favour of Islam's compatibility with democracy are in perpetual danger of being drowned out by a mixture of depressing news from Muslim lands and zealous ideologues on both sides of a looming civilisational divide.
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